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Monte Carlo Valuation of natural gas investments
(2006-07)
This paper deals with the valuation of energy assets related to natural gas. In particular, we evaluate a baseload Natural Gas Combined Cycle (NGCC) power plant and an ancillary instalation, namely a Liquefied Natural Gas ...
Income risk of EU coal-fired power plants after Kyoto
(2008-10)
Coal-fired power plants may enjoy a significant advantage relative to gas plants in terms of cheaper fuel cost. Still, this advantage may erode or even turn into disadvantage depending on CO2 emission allowance price. This ...
Valuing Expansions of the Electricity Transmission Network under Uncertainty: The Binodal Case
(MDPI, 2011-10)
Transmission investments are currently needed to meet an increasing electricity demand, to address security of supply concerns, and to reach carbon-emissions targets. A key issue when assessing the benefits from an expanded ...
The Economics of Gasification: A Market-Based Approach
(MDPI, 2009-09)
This paper deals with the economics of gasification facilities in general and IGCC power plants in particular. Regarding the prospects of these systems, passing the technological test is one thing, passing the economic ...
Revenue Risk of US Tight-Oil Firms
(MDPI, 2016-10)
American U.S. crude oil prices have dropped significantly of late down to a low of less than $30 a barrel in early 2016. At the same time price volatility has increased and crude in storage has reached record amounts in ...
The Experience Economy in a Wine Destination—Analysing Visitor Reviews
(MDPI, 2022)
Wine tourism in rural territories, sometimes organised along wine routes, increasingly attracts visitors, tourism agents, wine producers and those responsible for developing rural territories. Wine tourism is located at ...
Intangible resources, competencies and business results: Evidences for Basque and Spanish companies
(2016-02-08)
There are a significant number of empirical studies that have shown links among dimensions of IC and business results Other studies analyze the links of some competencies that can be associated to a concrete dimension of ...
Real Business Applications and Investments in Blockchain Technology
(MDPI, 2022-02-01)
This paper provides an empirical study to identify the objective of companies that are currently investing in adopting blockchain technologies to improve their processes and services. Unlike other studies based on the ...
"Attitudes do matter": Generic competences in the selection of Business graduates
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019)
[EN] This research aims to determine what competences are considered critical for team and human resources (HR) managers when selecting inexperienced Business graduates. Secondly, we aim to find out differences existing ...
Internationalization of family firms: analyzing the influence of the family in management and governance
(2019-12-11)
La creciente globalización, el aumento de la competencia, el rápido crecimiento de las nuevas tecnologías, y las nuevas perspectivas de crecimiento que ofrecen los mercados extranjeros han impulsado la internacionalización ...